Can an industrial group be restructured “properly”?

Peut-on restructurer un groupe industriel « proprement » ?

Nicolas Berland ()
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Nicolas Berland: Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Through the history of the Saint-Gobain group between the merger with Pont-à-Mousson in 1970 to the end of the 1990s, we show how the necessary organizational adjustments were made to both implement a new strategy and coping with external shocks on the business. The dismissals that followed were carried out as part of workforce redeployment operations. Although Saint-Gobain did not invent this system, it helped to popularize it to make it a mechanism for social treatment of workforce reductions which will then be taken up by law. Through this example, it is a singular variety of capitalism that emerges, for which labor is not a simple adjustment variable.

Keywords: layoffs; strategy; external shocks; reclassification of the workforce; licenciements; stratégie; chocs externes; reclassement de la main-d’œuvre (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-14
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Published in Entreprise & société, 2023, 2023-1 (n° 13), pp.57-77. ⟨10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15048-0.p.0057⟩

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DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15048-0.p.0057

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